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UNC study finds AIDS virus variations
A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified variants of the virus that causes AIDS depending on where in the body it occurs.
Posted — UpdatedCHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified variants of the virus that causes AIDS depending on where in the body the virus is found
In a paper to be published in the online journal PLoS Pathogens, Ronald Swanstrom Ph.D., calls the differences between HIV-1 in the blood and the virus in semen "like a flashing red light."
The finding is important to further study of how the virus is transmitted and treated, since most HIV infections worldwide occur via seminal fluid.
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